On a typical day at Brightworks, one of the most fascinating experiments yet in the effort to disrupt grade school, you might get cut, bruised, and bloodied. But you'll deal with it, and you'll learn something.
Gever Tulley, a former software engineer, founded Brightworks in 2011 because he believes in the tenacity of the human child. He has no qualms about handing a power tool to a kindergartener, playing with fire, or holding class in a tree house. When a student plays dangerously, they discover what they're capable of, according to Tulley. Problems start to look like puzzles, and the world needs more solvers these days.
Last month, Tech Insider named Brightworks one of the most innovative schools in the world for its living-on-the-edge approach to education. I recently spent a day at the San Francisco school as a student to see what makes Brightworks so unique.
Located in San Francisco's über hip Mission District, Brightworks is a school for makers and doers.
Housed in a 9,000-square-foot former mayonnaise factory, the school is anything but ordinary.
A pug named Apollo, quite possibly the most spoiled pup on the planet, greets you at the door.
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